State v. Blackman

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Blanchard, J.

Defendant was indicted for murder, tried by jury, found guilty and sentenced to death.

He appeals.

In the course of his closing argument for the State, the District Attorney said, in substance, that “if theré is a man on that jury who does not believe this man ought to be hung, then I say he is a weakling, not possessed of the proper manhood, and is unfit to sit on the jury.”

Counsel for the accused immediately objected to this language as *122improper and prejudicial to his client, and reserved a bill of exceptions against the same.

Subsequently,…